• otacon239@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.

    WHAT DATA?!

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        22 days ago

        If they were using that data, then they would have included features people actually use in 10. Or maybe they’re just doing the inverse of whatever the data suggests.

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          21 days ago

          It’s the data of what corners MS can cut to save more money than they lose when x number of users decide enough is enough.

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          21 days ago

          Or maybe you’re overestimating the amount of people who actually used that. Spending effort on something that less than maybe 1% of users actually use and that is not load bearing to any important workflows is hard to argue for when you’re a corp that is only concerned about its own bottom line. It’s a pretty rational business decision, even if you (and I) disagree with it.

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      22 days ago

      Two data points: What their intern could do with React; what their intern couldn’t do with React.

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      22 days ago

      It’s Microsoft, they have all the data. And quite frankly it doesn’t surprise even a little bit, i doubt even 5% of people moved around the taskbar, people are just ready to hitch themselves to every bandwagon they see shitting on Microsoft.

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        22 days ago

        In that case, based on the roughly 1.5 billion Windows users, that’ll only affect a mere 75 million users for a feature that’s been there since Windows 95.

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          The equation they are thinking of, though, is “will the cost of those who actually quit using Windows outweigh the cost of building and maintaining this feature.” Funnily enough the inability to move the taskbar is what finally pushed me to Linux full-time, but the overwhelming majority will complain and stick to Windows.